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Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
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The startling premise involves a lonely man and a life-size doll, but the film's interest lies in how a community responds to him. That makes it a conversation about dignity and kindness rather than an exercise in laughing at someone isolated. Discuss the limits of accommodating another person's world, while treating the story as a fable rather than clinical guidance.
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About Lars and the Real Girl
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.